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2024
shaojiu
shaojiu
See also:
shāojiǔ
English
Noun
shaojiu
(
uncountable
)
A clear, Chinese
distilled
alcoholic
beverage
, generally about 40-60% alcohol by volume, usually distilled from
sorghum
.
Synonyms
baijiu
See also
kaoliang
mijiu
rice wine
sake
soju
Translations
clear Chinese alcoholic beverage
Chinese:
Mandarin:
燒酒
(zh)
,
烧酒
(zh)
(
shāojiǔ
)
Finnish:
shaojiu
Russian:
шаоцзю́
n
(
šaoczjú
)
Etymology
From
pinyin
transliteration
of
Mandarin
燒酒
,
烧酒
(shāojiǔ).
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